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One of my favorite Micronauts of my childhood,realized as a costume for Halloween. Almost entirely hand sewn, fabric over foam. LED lit brain. Some plastics.
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Awesome costume, again, like other commenters saw the thumbnail and thought...nah...can't be...WOW!!!
I've loved Micronauts. I had a "Time Traveler" figure I played with till he fell apart, then read the Mantlo comics after finding a pile of them cheap at a pawn shop...
I consider "Micronauts" and "Rom" to be examples of a combination of experimental storytelling and "The Show must go on".
From - hazy memory, what might be a Muppets episode but maybe those cartoons like Simon and Peabody: - the stage is wrecked, probably Gonzo and Crazy Harry blowing up half the stage. As lights and curtains drop Kermit is depressed. The nerdy accountant comes out "The show must go on!" - Kermit goes "Why....?" and he goes "Well, if it doesn't we won't get paid...", Kermit goes "The SHOW must GO ON!!!"
Some of Marvel's 70s greats were that. All these "Art Degree" people who came from the 60s getting put on C-list and D-list stuff the company might cancel any day in a market full of "Art Majors"... And those in particular, working toy advertisements for toys no longer produced, or in the case of the Marvel Star Wars (that's MY 'expanded universe'...!) waiting between movies that might come out. So they did what any responsible person would do and really hammered their best into it. We got top notch art and compelling stories that put such breath and life into these toys.
I have so many favs from those - I bought most from 5/25c bins with black Xs drawn on the covers... New to me. Like when the Micronauts left their galaxy and saw it from the outside and it was a DNA helix... (mind you the pot-head - "our solar system might be an atom in a giant's hand and that giant's solar system might be...") Or when both Rann and Karza tried for ascension to godhood to settle their war but then decided to fight man to man at last... Or in Rom where he explored space alone after the Wraith war, finding lost space knights but also searching for his soul to cast out the effects of a war he had fought for a century and what it had cost him (again the Vietnam war a very fresh memory) and he found a society where humans were battling their machines and being both man and machine he tried to bring peace...
Flew into a rage at the modern "Pointless re-make" now am looking Ebay for the figures... Not going to break the bank re-living childhood with a pile of toys, though might buy a Palisades Time Traveler and a "Time Chamber".
Maybe when I get into scifi/superhero writing I might make action figures - if I can get a 70s desk size jet molder and make them myself, my own toys - don't want to do it in China - but might compromise and do it in India - actually have friends there.
I've loved Micronauts. I had a "Time Traveler" figure I played with till he fell apart, then read the Mantlo comics after finding a pile of them cheap at a pawn shop...
I consider "Micronauts" and "Rom" to be examples of a combination of experimental storytelling and "The Show must go on".
From - hazy memory, what might be a Muppets episode but maybe those cartoons like Simon and Peabody: - the stage is wrecked, probably Gonzo and Crazy Harry blowing up half the stage. As lights and curtains drop Kermit is depressed. The nerdy accountant comes out "The show must go on!" - Kermit goes "Why....?" and he goes "Well, if it doesn't we won't get paid...", Kermit goes "The SHOW must GO ON!!!"
Some of Marvel's 70s greats were that. All these "Art Degree" people who came from the 60s getting put on C-list and D-list stuff the company might cancel any day in a market full of "Art Majors"... And those in particular, working toy advertisements for toys no longer produced, or in the case of the Marvel Star Wars (that's MY 'expanded universe'...!) waiting between movies that might come out. So they did what any responsible person would do and really hammered their best into it. We got top notch art and compelling stories that put such breath and life into these toys.
I have so many favs from those - I bought most from 5/25c bins with black Xs drawn on the covers... New to me. Like when the Micronauts left their galaxy and saw it from the outside and it was a DNA helix... (mind you the pot-head - "our solar system might be an atom in a giant's hand and that giant's solar system might be...") Or when both Rann and Karza tried for ascension to godhood to settle their war but then decided to fight man to man at last... Or in Rom where he explored space alone after the Wraith war, finding lost space knights but also searching for his soul to cast out the effects of a war he had fought for a century and what it had cost him (again the Vietnam war a very fresh memory) and he found a society where humans were battling their machines and being both man and machine he tried to bring peace...
Flew into a rage at the modern "Pointless re-make" now am looking Ebay for the figures... Not going to break the bank re-living childhood with a pile of toys, though might buy a Palisades Time Traveler and a "Time Chamber".
Maybe when I get into scifi/superhero writing I might make action figures - if I can get a 70s desk size jet molder and make them myself, my own toys - don't want to do it in China - but might compromise and do it in India - actually have friends there.